Chiefs' Leonard Pope saves 6-year-old boy from drowning in pool

Leonard Pope has 78 career receptions in the NFL. But perhaps his most important catch came last weekend when he rescued a 6-year-old boy from the deep end of a pool in Georgia.

Pope jumped in to rescue 6-year-old Bryson Moore when he noticed the child struggling.

"As he was just tumbling around in the water, you know, he kind of lost his footing and he went sliding in the deep end a little bit," Pope told NFL Network (video below).

"And that's when I heard his mom, Anne, yell and I was on my way out the house and I just went for it."

Anne Moore has been a longtime friend of Pope, a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs.

She was jubilant that Pope was there to help her son.

"All of a sudden, I saw Bryson going down in the water and I started screaming," Moore told the Americus Times Recorder.

"Leonard was inside, and he came out of nowhere and dove into the water without any hesitation, cell phone in his pocket and all. He saved my son's life, and I am so thankful that he was there for me and my child."

She told the paper Bryson was doing OK after the traumatic incident.

Pope jumped at a moment's notice to help the boy, which cost him some of his material possessions as he got wet.

"No, everything," he said about what was in his pockets. "Cell phone, wallet, you know it didn't really matter because at that time that's a life on the line and it just had to get done."

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